A trio of Tampa pitchers gave the Red Sox the tying run in the eighth. There were 33 pitches thrown in the inning, but none of them were put into play by Boston batters. Three walks loaded the bases and a wild pitch brought in the run that knotted the score at 5-5.

And only five pitches into the home half of the eighth, Tampa had regained a three-run lead. Ramon Ramirez, who had pitched a perfect seventh, allowed a double to Carlos Pena and an RBI single to Pat Burrell. Manny Delcarmen came in and his first pitch was crushed to deep left by Evan Longoria.

Martinez drew a one-out walk in the ninth, but Boston went quietly.

(At one point, five consecutive Boston batters were pitched to by five different Tampa relievers:

Dear Josh: You have a 9.82 ERA in your last three starts. In those games, 18.1 innings of work, you have allowed 10 home runs and opponents have a 1.106 OPS. This is completely unacceptable. If you are not hurt, as everyone insists, then kindly get your head out of your ass at once and start pitching properly. Thank you.

Public transportation is next to nonexistent in the whole state. It's often said that if you see someone walking along a road, it's because they must have run out of gas. This is not too much of an exaggeration.

well, you have to understand how he feels, noone else could possibly know as much about the game of baseball as rish does, so he's trying to serve you up some knowledge ( even though he's really just blabbering like a fucking retard)

As for Rish, yeah, the name meant nothing to me. As usual, I tend not to pay close attention to the non-players. On the radio it is even harder since there is no visual cue as to who is speaking. I always recognize Castig's voice though.

i almost hate it when the game is on espn, i usually have to watch on mlb.tv which doesnt quite give me the picture i get on espn hd, but i dont have to deal with espn announcers. they black out the nesn broadcast when it's on tv

not first but first in a while L-girl. mlb.tv isnt bad usually, they let you pick between the home and away broadcast of both tv and radio, but they check your ip and find out your location, i think t's some kind of deal with the cable companies so that they can have the service and dont steal viewers

That sounds right, Scott. I should have known...my husband watches all the Yankee games on MLB.com and gets blocked out if we are in the NY market. I am spoiled, getting to watch almost all games on regular cable tv, so I forget how MLBtv works, despite the fact that it is running on his laptop right now in the next room!